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Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Ralph Nader

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Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
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End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.
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Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not going to go anywhere with it if we don't focus on the concentration of power.
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The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential.
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The threats are coming to this country, which will, of course, increase the massive industry known as the anti-terrorism industry, and crush our civil liberties and civil rights, And it's devouring our priorities here in communities all over the country which are in such disrepair and are so neglected in terms of public works and public services.
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Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform.
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Secrecy destroys accountability.
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[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.
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We have two parties who are basically hijacking our country for their corporate paymasters. And if we focus on 535 members of Congress, that's not all that many, we're going to see a fast turnaround. So focus all your concerns, all the information, the kind of agenda the Green Party has. Turn it right on your Senators and Representatives.
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I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.
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Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?
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Let's look at the Trump and Bernie Sanders insurgencies. They were basically insurgencies against the Republican and Democratic Party. Bernie Sanders made no mistake about it. And, of course, Trump didn't either. And they almost won.
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By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.
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That could be a high water mark for the Green Party in its history. What two states, I can only guess, aren't you going to be on because of horrendous obstacles to getting on the ballot.
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Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.
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I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
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Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.
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For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.
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I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.
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As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.
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